Clothes-pin.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

G. F. BRO-CK. CLOTHES PIN APPLICATION rum) NOV. 4, 1901.,

WITNESSES: I

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE FRANKLIN BROOK, OF BROOK, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TONELSON S. CRISP, OF STEGOAH, NORTH CAROLINA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed November 4, 1907. Serial No. 400,698.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. BROOK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brock, in the county of Graham and State of North Carolina,have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates, generally, to clothes pins and more particularlyto that class constructed of resilient wire.

The object of the invention is to increase the utility of such devices,and to improve the construction thereof in such manner as whilepermitting of their being readily attached to or detached from a clothesline, their accidental separation therefrom will be positivelyprevented.

With the above and other'objects in view, as will appear as the natureof the invention is better understood the same consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts of a clothes pin, as will behereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and inwhich like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts,-Figure1 is a view in perspective of a clothes pin constructed in accordancewith the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectionthereof.

The pin is constructed from a single length of resilient non-oxidizablewire and is bent to form an approximately rectangular body or frame 1.At the top of the pin the side mem bers of the body are interlooped at2, and one of the members is extended downward to a point near thebottom body member 3 and then rebent and continued upward in approximateparallelism with the side member 4 to form one of the looped clampingmembers 5. The other side member of the body is bent to cross the topbody member 6 and is extended downward to a point near the bottom bodymember and then rebent and continued upward in approximate parallelismwith the side member 7 to form the second of the looped clamping members8. At the top of the body the two outer branches 9 and 10 of theclamping members are bent substantially at right angles to their lengthand are twisted together forming thereby a suspending loop 11 to engagethe clothes line 12 which will preferably be of wire. The branch 9 ofthe member 5 is bent forward, as shown at 13, to render the suspendingloop thoroughly stable, while the branch 10 of the member 8 is bentdownward in approximate parallelism with the body, to form a guard 14and is then bent around the bottom of the pin and thence upward at thefront of the body to form a keeper 15 that projects into the body, asshown in Fig. 2, the terminal of the keeper being formed into a loop oreye 16 to obviate danger of injury to the person positioning the pinupon the line.

As will be noted by reference to Fig. 2, the pin is loosely disposedupon the line and under these conditions is free to swing. It frequentlyhappens in high winds and with clothes pins of this character that thearticle of clothing will turn completely over, and in this case the linewould occupy the bend 17. Now without the provision of the keeper, whichmay be considered as included between two points a and I), undercontinued whipping of the garment or of another turning, the pin wouldbecome detached from the line but by the arrangement shown it will beseen that this latter result will positively be prevented.

In assembling the pin with the line its position is reversed and thekeeper is brought into engagement with the line, whereupon when adownward pull is exerted on the pin the keeper will yield outward andthus allow the line to enter the guard. The pin is now reversed to bringthe clamping members to the position shown in Fig. 1. By employing twoclamping members, two garments may be supported by one pin and still beout of contact witheach other. This is of advantage as it will allowremoval of one garment without disturbing the other.

It will be noted by reference to Fig. 2 that the terminals of theclamping members are curved rearward towards the guard, the object ofthis arrangement being to facilitate the assembling of the garments withthe pin.

WVhat is claimed is 1. A clothes pin comprising a body a pair ofclamping members coacting therewith and having two of their branchestwisted together to form a suspending loop, one of the branches beingcontinued downward to form a guard and thence upward to form a keeper.

2. A clothes pin constructed from a length of wire and bent to form anapproximately rectangular body and two clamping members disposedapproximately in parallelism there- In testimony that I claim theforegoing as with, two otthe branches of the members bemy own, I havehereto alfixed my signature in ing bent approximately at right angles tothe the presence of two witnesses.

body and twisted together to form a suspend- GEORGE FRANKLIN BROOK. ingloop, and one of the branches being con- Witnesses: tinued downward toform a guard and thence T. WV. HAMPTON,

upward to form a keeper. I 1 A. P. WILBAR.

